Since this is Apterous' 10th year, could we also do a Game of the Decade? Yes we could, nice idea! It'd be easy. Just do it after the 2017 winner is chosen... Allow people vote on what they consider the greatest of the 10 annual winners so far. I've been running the annual poll since 2010, the year...

Had one last night where I seemed to have eventually got around to applying and filming for Countdown. Now, I must have been suffering from amnesia or something because I somehow could not remember ever filming at all despite the fact 3 of my episodes had aired, with me scoring a record 154 in the ...

https://www.balls.ie/athletics/doug-logan-378970 Great article this. Yeah, I don't think it's anything new though. I think it's been discussed before that you could just allow anything, but the women would end up as men, and the men would and up as monsters, and young people wouldn't aspire to be l...

On Robot Wars, they've just had the grand final. I won't put any major spoilers, but I quite enjoyed the 10-way fight at the start. But I think it would have been much better without the pit or house robots. In fact the whole show would. And the Fog of War is just pathetic. Also, Detectorists and Ma...

...are we being trolled? This is the first time for a while I've wanted to be really disparaging about the ability of a contestant... but she is, so far, bloody hopeless. I was going to say the same about both contestants yesterday. Though the winner got 90, it could easily have been about 30. Toda...

All spots for the Series 77 finals are now claimed, and there are still seven heats left in the series. If someone wins the next six games and loses the seventh and last heat, and six wins proves to be enough to make it into the Series 78 finals, can this person be entered into the Series 78 finals...

I think Noel v Eoin is a very close one, but if I am looking for an upset I can see Michael causing John problems. Seeds 3 to 6 are very close on points, so I don't think any result involving these players would be that much of an upset. I think the first two are slightly clear though, so I'd predi...

I think I know the answer to this question, but I'm genuinely curious: All spots for the Series 77 finals are now claimed, and there are still seven heats left in the series. If someone wins the next six games and loses the seventh and last heat, and six wins proves to be enough to make it into the...

It's because they're all filmed at once - a several day block, with each heat spread over multiple days. I think they all turn up at once and they set up the heats based on when teams are ready. There's probably enough teams ready immediately that you can space out the good ones a bit, but the last...

I'm also catching up with the new series of Robot Wars. I'm glad they've tweaked the format slightly. I think it's slightly better now. But in both this series and the last one the two grand finalists from the previous series have ended up in the same heat. If it's just a random thing then OK, but ...

Another point worth considering is indeed that Graeme was going to buzz in with a different answer, maybe say IMMIGRANT at first, which is what my tired self thought of first. Then after the mishap and he'd had time to digest it fully he realised it was MIGRATING, though I'd like to think this isn'...

I was in the studio for this one, the conundrum was actually very controversial. I think Nick said 'good luck to you both' or something on those lines after asking to roll the crucial conundrum. So the board flipped a good second or two before the clock began, and I think they both tried to buzz. I...

Just finished watching the latest series of Red Dwarf. I don't think it was too bad, but I'm still not sure what to make of these new series of it. Also Zapped (on Dave), which is an OK comedy, but nothing spectacular. I watched the first series of Stranger Things when I was on holiday, and thought ...

David Williams now added. Interestingly his age-graded score (76.22%) is higher than Oliver Garner's (75.59%). Although you can debate the relevance of these scores as much as you like. Right, I'm going to put up a ranking list of Countdown/Apterous parkrunners. I'll check it every so often to see i...

[I think you told me which one it was but I've forgotten. Good luck with it, anyway. Also, I'd definitely recommend joining a running club. It's the Chelmsford marathon. Not exactly a big event, but I think it's a fast enough course, and I'm aiming for under 3 hours. I got 3:09:16 in the end. It wa...

The date of this makes it Anti Christmas (for me anyway). I always have a rule that no mince pies or mulled wine until Advent starts - Advent this year starts on Dec 3rd (4 Sundays before Christmas). Bring on the anti-Christmas theme

Sorry to put this in this thread, due to technical issues. Having just witnessed the first tablet Scrabble tournament, I wondered if Apterous could be used in the same way, albeit a laptop version. I just wondered if a face to face event would work. Feel free to put this in the correct thread You m...

How do vegans feel about the fact that planes have to test engines for bird strike by firing chickens at the engines? I see it as a big continuum with killing as many animals as you possibly can at one end, and doing everything you posibly can to avoid animal suffering at the other. As a vegetarian...

I'm a vegetarian. I've thought about going vegan as well at times, but it seems unlikely at the moment. I think Quorn could get their act together and make more/all of their stuff vegan. On the gelatine/rennet thing, it seems really odd to me that quite a few people seem to be aware that sweets ofte...

It probably belongs in the 'Really obvious things that you've only just realised' thread, but there's all these people who run past where I live when I'm out for my run on a Saturday morning. They stand around in a car-park for a quarter of an hour, then they do exactly the same course every week n...

I think that the "Crystal Pathway" game doesn't actually look that hard, but contestants are too impatient with it. They'll line one up correctly and then just press the button for the next thing on its very next run past rather than trying to get a sense of timing. I suppose it's the sense of time ...

And it's a shame that Jeremy Corbyn has decided to react in the same way as all the other sheep. I don't know why people pretend that this is something really terrible, rather than something that 99% of people do all the time. Sure, it was ill-considered considering the likely backlash, but really p...

They had Adam Buxton as a severed head doing one of the riddle games, which is fucking brilliant because I love him. Another interesting thing happened in this one where he basically gave one of the riddle answers to the girl as she was - I don't even know if this is the politically correct way of ...

Actually today Rachel said there were a couple of methods but in a more innocent sounding way than on some other occasions. She said something like "There were a couple of methods actually", which doesn't sound as bad as when she says "There were a couple of methods actually".